Game|Life Podcast: A Chat With Hitman Absolution‘s Creative Director

Hitman: Absolution will be available on Tuesday, November 20. Image: Square Enix

Tore Blystad, creative director of Hitman: Absolution, is our special guest on this week’s episode of the Game|Life podcast.

Besides discussing the launch of the stealth assassination game, which will take place on Tuesday for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, Blystad was kind enough to sit in on the entire podcast, joining in wrapping up the week in news with me and Wired senior editor Peter Rubin. Topics covered include the impending launch of Wii U on Sunday, the faceplant of Call of Duty on PlayStation Vita, and various other stories about the decline of gaming retail and rising development costs.

As it turns out, it’s pretty good to have an actual creator of videogames around to discuss these things! Who knew?

Game|Life’s podcast is posted on Fridays, is available on iTunes, can be downloaded directly and is embedded below.